The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
~ Arthur Koestler
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What picture of American society is likely to be imprinted on the consciousness of average Europeans? Given what they read or hear every day from intellectuals and politicians, they can hardly have any choice in the unpleasant particulars, especially if they happen to be French.
~ Jean-François Revel
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A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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The aesthetic is the sine qua none for art: if a work is not aesthetic, it is not art by definition.
~ Mark Rothko
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
~ William Faulkner
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You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.
~ Che Guevara
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Foresight is an imperfect thing — all prevision in economics is imperfect.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength.
~ Eric Hoffer
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